Libertarian Party candidates to pose in calendar

[Guest hardyz1]

http://www.philly.com/mld/philly/news/weir...ews/4101089.htm

 

I'm too lazy to find pictures, but I will just assume they're all hot.

[Guest DrTom]

This article has one of the pictures. I saw a couple other links that had different ones. I like the idea behind the calendar, but the few pictures I've seen so far haven't really been too impressive.

[Guest Cancer Marney]

That's okay. Neither is the Libertarian Party.

[Guest Olympic Slam]

I'm sure the ladies are just dying for the male version. Harry Browne wearing nothing but a bag of medical marijuana! Smell the sex appeal!

[Guest hardyz1]

That's okay. Neither is the Libertarian Party.

 

Oooh, that hurts me right down to the bone.

 

Vote Ken Krawchuk for Governor of Pennsylvania!

[Guest Cancer Marney]

He looks like a dork. At least make him get a decent haircut.

[Guest kkktookmybabyaway]

"That's okay. Neither is the Libertarian Party."

 

LOL.

 

I have a soft spot in my heart for the LP, but every public rally I've seen involving a political figure of theirs focused on making pot legal, and he was always surrounded by a bunch of dirty, disgusting hippies...

[Guest RevEvil]

I have a soft spot in my heart for the LP, but every public rally I've seen involving a political figure of theirs focused on making pot legal, and he was always surrounded by a bunch of dirty, disgusting hippies...

X-pac's a libertarian, so they must suck.

[Guest Agent of Oblivion]

Pot's legalization is an issue I'm really serious about. There is absolutely no good reason to continue prohibition.

[Guest NoCalMike]

Pot's legalization is an issue I'm really serious about. There is absolutely no good reason to continue prohibition.

Correct you are. However if Dubya is re-elected, you are looking at, at least another 6+ years until any progress is made in making marijuana legal.

[Guest Agent of Oblivion]

Which is one reason why I didn't vote for him then, and I'm not going to vote for him next time. That and I -despised- his dad's presidency.

[Guest Some Guy]

Some how the legalization of weed isn't one of the main reasons I go to vote. I think it should be legal but I don't care enough to waste my vote on Libertarian.

[Guest Cancer Marney]

Ditto. Sure the war on drugs is a bad idea, but it's not bad enough to make me stop voting Republican. What, you want me to support the privatisation of roads instead? Now there's a fuckheaded idea if I ever heard one. And you've gotta love the ever-so-noble but terribly vague pacificism and their incessant, incomprehensible rants against the state. Not to mention the elimination of income tax. Please, spare me.

Libertarians make about as much sense as the Democrats, and they use precisely the same tactics, but thankfully they have no more influence than the so-called "Greens."

[Guest Olympic Slam]

I go back and forth with my opinions on Libertatians. I agree with a lot of the stuff they stand for. However, I just can't shake the notion they're probably just a bunch of pot heads.

[Guest Slapnuts00]

haha, my best friend is Libertarian, he annoys me to no end. Anyway, I used to think we should just legalize pot, but Lance Storm had an editorial at his website against it that I have to say I agree with. It really isn't as good an idea as it seems.

http://www.stormwrestling.com/commentary/d...lt.asp?aID=1285

[Guest kkktookmybabyaway]

I read that piece a week ago, and he makes a lot of sense (he makes sense on a lot of issues, really). Personally, I don't do drugs and don't give a crap if some pseudo-hippie gets busted for smoking a joint. Sorry, I got better things to worry about...

[Guest RevEvil]

On the issue of second-hand highs, maybe marijuana could only be legal in a non-smoked form. I don't know if that's a good idea or not, but that's what came into my head as I read the article.

[Guest hardyz1]

I read Storm's commentary and I was wondering; Would legalization really create as many new users as he seems to think?

 

I hate drugs as much as Storm does, but I do think that if you aren't hurting anyone else, there's no problem with it.

[Guest Olympic Slam]

The thing is that drugs affect people other than the user. Anyone that has lost a loved one as a result of a drunk driver knows what I'm talking about. With drugs legal, they become even more socially acceptable than they are now. Does anyone really want a world it's OK to walk around high on god knows what?

 

I used to be pro-drug leagalization, but I've since moved to the dead center on the issue. I'm not the hardcore libertarian that I once was. Apparently drug leagalization has been a disaster in a lot of European countries.

[Guest NoCalMike]

Legalization of pot is not a sole reason to vote for a candidate. Just one issue to mull over. I am not sure about "second-hand highs" because it is a medical fact that when you exhale smoke from marijuana, the THC is gone from the smoke. So the smoke you breathe in that gets you high, is useless when you breathe it out. There is a difference between getting lightheaded from breathing smoke, and getting HIGH from THC.

[Guest Olympic Slam]

Legalization of pot is not a sole reason to vote for a candidate. Just one issue to mull over.

So very true. You know someone is uninformed when their litmus test for a candidate is something as minor as pot or something irrelevant like abortion. An informed voter should believe in a doctrine. Free market or government intervention? Big government or limited government? Capitalism or Socialism? Unfortunately, the right and the left are so much in the center now that a minor issue like pot legalization could sway a voter.

[Guest hardyz1]

You know someone is uninformed when their litmus test for a candidate is something as minor as pot or something irrelevant like abortion.

I agree. Drug legalization (or decriminalization, whatever) is not the only thing I like about Libertarians (in particular right now Ken Krawchuk), it's limited government, gradual elimination of the income tax, eliminating parole for violent criminals, the right to carry a concealed weapon (with a permit, of course), which all are more important than drug legalization.

 

Speaking of which, I have a question for everyone, but especially Republicans: What do you think of Gary Johnson?

 

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[Guest Cancer Marney]

Anyone that has lost a loved one as a result of a drunk driver knows what I'm talking about. With drugs legal, they become even more socially acceptable than they are now. Does anyone really want a world it's OK to walk around high on god knows what?

So ban alcohol. After all, that worked so well the first time, right?

 

It's not legal to walk around smashed out of your mind. It doesn't have to be legal to walk around stoned out of your mind either. But people will ALWAYS get high on something, because, as Chris Rock said, people simply want to get high. You can punish them for doing stupid shit while they're high, but you can't stop them from getting high in the first place. And frankly, we have much more important things to do with our time.

[Guest Olympic Slam]

You're absolutelty right, no amount of control and regulation can stop people from doing what they want to do. That goes for just about anything really; guns, abortions, alcohol during prohibition to name a few. Kind of reminds me of Jurassic Park. No amount of control and fabricated science could prevent the dinosaurs from "breaking down the walls" and allying itself with how nature intended them to be, and thus they were able to breed.

[Guest The Czech Republic]

Off in the Helvetican Confederation, which we also call Switzerland, they made drugs legal in the canton that Zurich is in. There were dirty needles all over the roads, under trees, in parks, in the alleys, everywhere. Is that what you want?

[Guest Cancer Marney]

Legalisation and littering are two different things. Alcohol is legal, and we don't have broken beer bottles all over the Capitol.

[Guest RobJohnstone]

That's all we need. Everyone stoned out of their minds, flaunting it because it is legal. Weed takes away ambition I like some Libertarian views but definitly not supporting legalizing drugs.

 

--Rob

[Guest MrRant]

As long as they use pretty girls in commercials to sell dimebags like they do in beer commericials I am ok with it.

 

I personally don't care about weed but the harder stuff I have a problem with.

[Guest Cancer Marney]

Tobacco is far more addictive. Alcohol is not only more addictive, it's also more temporarily impairing and more permanently damaging. Both are legal. "Weed takes away ambition..." like it's the only thing that does? What bullshit. Anything can "take away ambition." If smoking a joint kills your desire to do anything else, you were never going to do anything worthwhile in the first place.

[Guest RobJohnstone]

Tobacco is far more addictive. Alcohol is not only more addictive, it's also more temporarily impairing and more permanently damaging. Both are legal. "Weed takes away ambition..." like it's the only thing that does? What bullshit. Anything can "take away ambition." If smoking a joint kills your desire to do anything else, you were never going to do anything worthwhile in the first place.

I see your point but legalizing it would be like saying it's ok to do it, which in my eyes it's not. I was a big pot head through high school and it started to affect my grades so I stopped after a few years. Legalizing it would make alot of young impressionable minds think it would be ok to do it when right now they don't. That's all I am saying.

 

--Rob